Improvement in processes for utilizing immature cotton-bolls



v i JOHN HUGHESLi' Improvement in Processes for Utilizing immature Cotto'nrBolls. No. 115,209,. I PatentedMay 23,1871.-

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UNITED STATES Joan nee-ans, on NEW nnnnn, ORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PROCESSES FOR UTILIZING IMMATURE COTTON-BULLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,209, dated May 22-3, 1871.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, J ornv HUeHEs, of N e Berne, in the county of Graven and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Utilizing Immatured Gotton-Bolls and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked there- Figure 1 of the drawing is my invention in plan view. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same.

My invention has relation to means for utilizing the contents of the immatured bolls of cotton which are late in coming to perfection,

and are therefore unopened when the mass of the cotton is picked; and it consists in the construction of suitable machinery whereby the said unripened cotton-bolls may be artificially opened and the cotton combed and spread in such a manner that it may be readily dried and ginned out.

The letter A of the drawing designates the I box-like frame .of my machine. This frame is divided in two portions by the vertical transverse partition B. O C represent the hopper, transversely placed in a rectangular remove, ble frame, D. E E represent the rollers, by

the operation of which the bolls are opened.

These are usually corrugated, and are designed to rotate toward each other in the direction indicated by the arrows in the drawing. F designates the spreading-roller. This roller is provided with the teeth a a, which pass between the teeth b b of the comb H attached to the frame-work A. The comb H is curved downward and inward toward the roller F, thus guiding the contents of the hopper G in the proper direction to be acted on by the in tercalating teeth of the roller F and comb H.

The rollers may be operated by horse-powervisions of an orange. These little lobes are now to be taken out of the boil and placed in the hopper O, by which they are fed to the spreader and comb. The teeth of the spreading-roller F catch the packed lobes of cotton and press them between the teeth of the comb H in such a manner as to tear them, spread- JNO. HUGHES. Witnesses:

M. D. W. SrEvENsoN, I WM. H. OooKE. 

